Internet advertising is still young. Hell, the internet is still young. Google should continue to grow at a pretty remarkable pace for the foreseeable future. After all, I can't think of too many companies that have the ability to scale up as efficiently as Google appears to be able to. Having said that, I do tend to believe that they are currently overvalued (actually I just wish I could have bought in during the IPO.)
Consider the growing number of people who block all the annoying types of internet advertising by using Adblock. I do. As more and more people tire of the blinking graphics, all the flash nonsense and the misleading underlined text ads, more folks will start to block them. Google's simple text ads should then become a more attractive option for the retailer who actually wants people to SEE their ads. There has already been noise from some online advertising goons, complaining about the use of tools such as Adblock and Popup Blocker. That is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.
I can say that I have never clicked on an annoying flash or intellitxt ad but, I do click on Google Adsense ads when something interests me. I didn't think I would ever say this but, I actually find some of the ads in my Gmail account quite useful and I have even made purchases as a result of clicking through a few of them.
I can see Google's share of web advertising continuing to grow significantly as long as they maintain the unobtrusive style that they have. At the same time, the other advertising companies will have to adapt or go away.
Then clearly "therapist" means the same as "the rapist."
The retailer I worked for last fall managed to have shelf/price tags installed in over 100 stores with the following description printed on them.
Shiatsu Massage The
rapist
Not a single call came in from the stores to point out the misprint and potential customer nightmare.
The error was discovered by management during a Christmas tour, and then only because this particular item was being promoted in the upcoming holiday advertising.
We were constantly dealing with the 19 character limit on the first line of the description. The word Assorted often got cut to Ass on the first line. My favorite was
I doubt we'll see anything like this in the next several years but, I agree with you that it would be great.
I travel a lot, spending many nights in hotels trying to find something worth watching. Most nights I'll just fire up the laptop instead because the hotel's TV service is so bad. What I really want is to be able to log onto my subscriber account from anywhere and pull up shows that actually offer something thoughtful, not the normal drivel/junk that exists on most cable plans.
Imagine being able to stream any show, from any network, wherever you are. Someone mentioned the series Connections a day or so ago. I would gladly pay a reasonable monthly subscription to access past shows of that caliber as well as some foreign programming and of course my hometown local news, all from my laptop while traveling.
Well I didn't have to use it myself but my former employer still has about 500-600 boxes from 1995 deployed as POS (both uses of the acronym) systems in a retail drug store environment.
if so, where?
Southeast US.
(And WHY!?)
PHBs are the owners + highly leveraged company + positioning for a buyout by someone more advanced?
They were in the process of reviewing systems for replacement when I left. Last I heard they were planning a speedy two year upgrade path.
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and for those who may think the parent is nuts:
http://www.worldjumpday.org/
Flash site warning
embarassed that I have that link bookmarked...
"But according to the post, Earthlink (the fourth largest provider) wasn't even in the top 20"
But notice that Mindspring.com falls in at #17 in the US and it is owned by Earthlink. I don't see how this keeps Earthlink out of the top twenty. The mindspring subscribers are surely included as part of earthlinks size?
Posting this as a mindspring/earthlink/time warner/roadrunner cable customer, exactly which company would earn the points if my machines were to become zombies?
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Internet advertising is still young. Hell, the internet is still young. Google should continue to grow at a pretty remarkable pace for the foreseeable future. After all, I can't think of too many companies that have the ability to scale up as efficiently as Google appears to be able to. Having said that, I do tend to believe that they are currently overvalued (actually I just wish I could have bought in during the IPO.)
Consider the growing number of people who block all the annoying types of internet advertising by using Adblock. I do. As more and more people tire of the blinking graphics, all the flash nonsense and the misleading underlined text ads, more folks will start to block them. Google's simple text ads should then become a more attractive option for the retailer who actually wants people to SEE their ads. There has already been noise from some online advertising goons, complaining about the use of tools such as Adblock and Popup Blocker. That is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.
I can say that I have never clicked on an annoying flash or intellitxt ad but, I do click on Google Adsense ads when something interests me. I didn't think I would ever say this but, I actually find some of the ads in my Gmail account quite useful and I have even made purchases as a result of clicking through a few of them.
I can see Google's share of web advertising continuing to grow significantly as long as they maintain the unobtrusive style that they have. At the same time, the other advertising companies will have to adapt or go away.
The retailer I worked for last fall managed to have shelf/price tags installed in over 100 stores with the following description printed on them.
Shiatsu Massage The
rapist
Not a single call came in from the stores to point out the misprint and potential customer nightmare. The error was discovered by management during a Christmas tour, and then only because this particular item was being promoted in the upcoming holiday advertising.
We were constantly dealing with the 19 character limit on the first line of the description. The word Assorted often got cut to Ass on the first line. My favorite was
Lil Nerds Candy Ass
orted.
He has since removed the link and added the following.
UPDATE - As has been pointed out, the link itself might have been a violation so it's been taken down.
UPDATE - As has been pointed out, the link itself might have been a violation so it's been taken down.
benifit = streaming, not waiting for a torrent to dl. That and the ability to change the channel/quickly find new content.
I doubt we'll see anything like this in the next several years but, I agree with you that it would be great.
I travel a lot, spending many nights in hotels trying to find something worth watching. Most nights I'll just fire up the laptop instead because the hotel's TV service is so bad. What I really want is to be able to log onto my subscriber account from anywhere and pull up shows that actually offer something thoughtful, not the normal drivel/junk that exists on most cable plans.
Imagine being able to stream any show, from any network, wherever you are. Someone mentioned the series Connections a day or so ago. I would gladly pay a reasonable monthly subscription to access past shows of that caliber as well as some foreign programming and of course my hometown local news, all from my laptop while traveling.
Well I didn't have to use it myself but my former employer still has about 500-600 boxes from 1995 deployed as POS (both uses of the acronym) systems in a retail drug store environment.
if so, where?
Southeast US.
(And WHY!?)
PHBs are the owners + highly leveraged company + positioning for a buyout by someone more advanced?
They were in the process of reviewing systems for replacement when I left. Last I heard they were planning a speedy two year upgrade path.
and for those who may think the parent is nuts: http://www.worldjumpday.org/ Flash site warning embarassed that I have that link bookmarked...
and a "magical" keyboard would be less cool how? ; )
"But according to the post, Earthlink (the fourth largest provider) wasn't even in the top 20"
But notice that Mindspring.com falls in at #17 in the US and it is owned by Earthlink. I don't see how this keeps Earthlink out of the top twenty. The mindspring subscribers are surely included as part of earthlinks size?
Posting this as a mindspring/earthlink/time warner/roadrunner cable customer, exactly which company would earn the points if my machines were to become zombies?